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Transcript: FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE HEALTH REFORM REDUX
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
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- November 10, 2009
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Regulatory Intelligence Data
11-10-2009
Every two weeks or so, there seems to be a story ringing the alarm bells
over the fiscal dimension of health reform. As I've said time and again,
the President is committed to signing a health reform bill that is deficit
neutral in the first decade - and deficit reducing thereafter. The legislation
under consideration in the Senate and the bill passed Saturday by the House
both meet these tests. But health reform effort must go beyond simply being
deficit neutral over the first decade and deficit reducing thereafter;
it must also begin the process of transforming the health care system so
that it delivers better care, not just more care. ...